Table 6 Revised information about families’ engagement in the co-design research.

From: Methodological considerations of technology co-design with families and design implications on mediating family connectedness from empirical research

Research Item

Phase(s) of engagement

Role of families—revised

Family ties of participants

Vetere et al., 2005

Pre-design

Generative

Design Partners

Intimate couples and spouses

Plaisant et al., 2006

Pre-design

Generative

Evaluative

Design Partners

Multi-generational family

Follmer et al., 2010

Generative

Evaluative

Informants

Parents and children

Judge et al., 2010

Evaluative

Informants

Testersa

Multi-generational family

Siblingsa

Multi-generational family with extended stepfamilya

Raju, 2018

Generative

Design Partners

Grandparents and grandchildren

Christensen et al., 2019

Pre-design

Evaluative

Informants

Parents and children

Tzou et al., 2019

Generative

Evaluative

Design Partners

Parents and children

  1. aThese families are engaged in one-shot, short-term evaluation, hence taking the role of testers.